Excursion to Pulau Ketam
A trip from Kulala Lumpur to Pulau Ketam – Crab Island If a tourist in Kuala Lumpur takes a day trip out of town, it will usually be to the More… →
Author Archives: Mrs Vagabond
Exploring Kuala Lumpur
I really wasn’t looking forward to the flight back to Kuala Lumpur – not least because it was a 21:30 take-off and 04:30 landing (it’s only a 4:30 hour flight, More… →
The beaches of north Goa
Once we were free from dental appointments we hired Nitin, our taxi driver, to take us out for the day. Although we’d been to Goa several times we’d never been More… →
Farewell Chapora
Our friend Sal arrived towards the end of our stay in Chapora, so there was only time for a few outings – a very pleasant afternoon and sunset at Oltremarino More… →
Back to Goa – again
We stayed at the Swan Inn again in Bali. I was glad we went all the way to Ubud even though we were only passing through and staying 4 nights. More… →
Last days in Oz
On our last day in Brisbane we wanted to get among those beautiful jacaranda trees. Rather than heading in our usual direction we walked up and over the ridge south More… →
Stradbroke Island
Our expedition to Stradbroke Island started with a walk to South Bank railway station, where we took the train to Cleveland. It was a meandering route and we stopped at More… →
Brisbane
As a taxi to Townsville airport was only $22 it hadn’t been worth making the extra effort required to get the shuttle bus. The airport itself was small, and memorable More… →
Townsville
The drive to Townsville was a simple run down the Bruce Highway, parallel with the coast, but we couldn’t linger anywhere too long as we had to return the car More… →
Mission Beach
While checking out of the Gables we mentioned our failure to spot a tree kangaroo the previous day, and our host immediately gave us directions to a tea plantation just More… →